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I told you in the last post that I would incorporate a language-learning exercise into this little cultural-learning exercise. With that, let’s jump right into it!

In the last post, I explained that “Gens du pays” was first introduced during the 1975 Fête nationale / St-Jean-Baptiste in Montréal 40 years ago. What you are about to watch is the actual birth of “Gens du pays” as Gilles Vigneault’s gift to Québec.

I would like, through everything that I did and everything that I will try to yet do, pass down the idea that to take charge of oneself means that you are able to say “Welcome” to the world which has just come to us.

The next post will be a similar exercise, but with a backgrounder in Gilles Vigneault’s own words.